Sociologies of the future offer insights into how the future is apprehended by social actors and motivates their actions. Contemporary narratives of crises in the Anthropocene portray an increasingly likely future: one of future collective death. This article conceptualises collective death as a future that possesses both imaginary and material dimensions. I argue that future collective death generates various affective responses that prompt social coalitions to resist its realisation, and I exemplify it with two cases: Extinction Rebellion and Space Colonisation. I explore how futurelessness and grief motivate Extinction Rebellion's direct non-violent actions to fight against future collective death, while death anxiety and terminality drive Space Colonisation's attempts to flee from it. In doing so, I illustrate the role of imagination, affect and material means in configuring future-oriented socio-political action.

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战斗或逃离未来：对未来集体死亡的对比反应的影响


未来社会学提供了关于社会参与者如何理解未来并激励他们行动的见解。当代对人类世危机的叙述描绘了一个越来越有可能的未来：未来的集体死亡。本文将集体死亡概念化为具有想象和物质维度的未来。我认为，未来的集体死亡会产生各种情感反应，促使社会联盟抵制其实现，我用两个案例来举例说明：灭绝叛乱和太空殖民。我探讨了未来感和悲伤如何激发灭绝叛乱组织采取直接非暴力行动来对抗未来的集体死亡，而死亡焦虑和终结如何驱使太空殖民试图逃离它。在此过程中，我阐述了想象力、情感和物质手段在配置面向未来的社会政治行动中的作用。